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Poem by Walt Whitman


Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 5. A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine


A carol closing sixty-nine—a resume—a repetition,
My lines in joy and hope continuing on the same,
Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom, Poetry;
Of you, my Land—your rivers, prairies, States—you, mottled Flag I love,
Your aggregate retain'd entire—Of north, south, east and west, your
      items all;
Of me myself—the jocund heart yet beating in my breast,
The body wreck'd, old, poor and paralyzed—the strange inertia
      falling pall-like round me,
The burning fires down in my sluggish blood not yet extinct,
The undiminish'd faith—the groups of loving friends.



Walt Whitman


Walt Whitman's other poems:
  1. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 28. Offerings
  2. Leaves of Grass. 32. From Noon to Starry Night. 19. What Best I See in Thee
  3. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 31. Yonnondio
  4. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 43. The Dying Veteran
  5. Leaves of Grass. 35. Good-Bye My Fancy. 25. “The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete”


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